[clug] [OT] quest for keyboards

[Paul Wayper]

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> 2010/2/2 Andreas Bauer <baueran at rsise.anu.edu.au>:
>> Many thanks for some pointers and hints already,

At the slightly cumbersome
http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_image_products.php?input[category_id]=1838
they've recently added a range of "Majestouch" keyboards which have good
reviews.  Don't know whether they're any good though, I'm sticking to my
Microsoft Natural 4000 keyboard.

On 02/02/10 09:54, Lana Brindley wrote:
> I considered switching to Dvorak (and still might, but the learning
> curve frightens me).

There's actually little practical evidence that Dvorak keyboards are that much
faster.  Most of the evidence is anecdotal, or was funded by the Dvorak
Keyboard Corporation.  The wetware physics makes sense - certainly alternating
hands is faster than when you have to move one hand or finger to hit the same
key - but there's lots of exceptions to rules like that in both our regular
languages and in the odd artificial languages we call programming languages,
markup, editing and so forth.  What we also know is that the human body is
_very_ good at adapting and learning these patterns of movements, and not very
good at retraining.

Serious typists use chorded keyboards.  The Hansard stenographers these days
mostly use voice re-dictation on trained speakers along with post-dictation
editing.

Hackers use butterflies. ;-)

Have fun,

Paul
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